Dish Network customers will now be able to transfer their favorite movies and TV shows to their Archos portable media players (PMP) with a new plug-in download.
The plug-in is offered exclusively to Dish subscribers with a VIP722 or VIP622 HD receiver, and it is compatible with the Archos 705 Wi-Fi and 605 Wi-Fi players.
“The Dish Network plug-in will allow consumers to transfer content faster than real-time from their Dish Network receiver to an Archos PMP,” said Henri Crohas, founder and CEO of Archos. “A two-hour movie can be transferred in just a few minutes.”
Archos and EchoStar Communications, Dish’s parent company, formed a strategic alliance in 2005 that made Archos the primary provider of portable devices.